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Ellen Goldring and Jason Grissom earned a grant of $1.6 million from IES for their study, The Development and Validation of a Diagnostic Assessment of Instructional Leadership Capacity.

‘SAM’ helps principals spend more time leading, less time putting out fires

School principals are often so caught up with managing their schools, they have little time to provide instructional leadership to their teachers. There may be a solution to this dilemma, according to a new report by researchers at Vanderbilt University and University of Pennsylvania.

Study: Feedback can hinder kids’ math outcomes

A new Peabody College study finds that sometimes providing verbal feedback (positive or negative) actually causes more harm than good. Developing ways to improve problem solving and early mathematics understanding is the research focus of Emily Fyfe, a doctoral student at Peabody.